hi amit i think these commercial distributions r charging for support they r giving and not for software. so there wont be any problem with these distro to be in OS-FSF library.
valmik > On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 23:12, Amit Upadhyay wrote: > > On Friday 18 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > > On 18/07/03 15:40 +0000, Amit Upadhyay wrote: > > > > > The CD images are copyrighted. You cannot sell those CDs. You > have full > > > right to redistribute the GPLed/BSD licensed content as per > the license, > > > but the right to distribute that particular image is not > available.> > > As per what? I just checked both SuSE 8.2 and Mandrake 9.1, and > cant locate > > any such term! In fact Mandrake's README.txt says: > > > > The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 2003 > MandrakeSoft S.A. > > and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each > > source package for distribution terms. The distribution > terms of the > > tools copyrighted by MandrakeSoft and Red Hat Software are as > noted in > > the file COPYING. > > > > > > Where COPYING contains full text of GPL. > > > > Similerly the only thing talking about copying in Suse 8.2 is > the same full > > text of GPL COPYING file. > > > > Am I missing something? > -- > ( >- LINUX, It's all about CHOICE -< ) > /~\ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ /~\ > | \) / Pre Sales Consultant - Red Hat \ (/ | > |_|_ \ 9820349221(M) | 22881326(O) / _|_| > \___________________________________/ > > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
